Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-28
AEcuT taeh OF NOTE.

ALrrED TENxrsoS has been poet iaurv.
ate during longer period than any Of his
predecessors. He has filed that position
thirty-scrcn years.
CoAMoDoR7 VANDERBILT once received
avisit from young man who was anxioua
to learn the secret Of accumulating such
great wealth. Upon being acquainted with
his visitors errGnd the commodore point
edly remarked; '.Dy working hard and say-
ing nothing about it."
Those two celebrated preachers, Rev. Or.
Bacon and Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher, were
once disputing on sono religious subject,
wit in his sermons. "Wcll," said Mr.. Beeoher,
'suppose it had pleased God to give you w.t.
what would you have done3"
OSE Of Horace Greeiey's peculiarities waB
his intense dislike for tobacco. On one oc-
casion gentleman, knowing this, inten-,
tionally passed him box Of cigars that he
was handing around to o small company,
whercupon Mr.. Greeley said: ''I thank you,
l haven't got cs low as that yet ] only
drink and swear"
MANY persons do not know that Jefferson
Davis is blind of an eye, and more do not
know how no was thus afflicted. When he
was fourteen years old he and his cousin,
Joseph l.. Davis, were shooting with cross
bows at mark on pine stump. One of
the bolts fred by young jefferson few
back and struck him squarely in tho eye,
putting it completely out.
The mmcnse cranial proportions Of Ben
lamin Franklin were on one occasion, while
being fitted with wig, the subject Of un-
bounded wrath to his hair-dresser, who was
endeavoring to work it on to tho Doctors
head. Upon receiving hint that tho wig
was too small, the hair-dresser wrathhillY
threw IL TO the floor and said: Monsieur.
it IS impossible. 1t is not the wig which
is too small, it is your head which is too
large"
HENRY NJ STANLEY, the African explorer,i Is
beset by twenty-three snuffy old Welsh wom-
en- who claim him as their son. It is felated
OF him that a good many years ago, when he
was only eighteen inches long, he was found
lying about loose in Welsh village with only
paper bag round him and the local Beedlc,
took him TO u workhouse, where he grew up
under difficulties. There wero no particu-
lar points about him in those days, and he
squalled just like any other common baby.
For all practical purposes his name might
as well have been Jinks. Since he has be-
come famous, however, he has been claimed
as the pct offspring of no end Of mothers.
GARIDALDI's triceps, or shoulder muscles,
were enormous. They were Just like two
half cocoanuts sticking up beneath his
mantle. His strength was simply Hercu-.
lean. Late one night he was passing on
foot, with only ono attendant through an
unlighted and dangerous part of Naples,
swarming with Ldzzdroni in the pay of Fran
els ii. Suddenly from either side two men
sprang simultaneously at him, knife In
hand. Before their blades, raised to strike,
could fall, Garibaldi had each by the throat,
hifrla irn af,- 49, f,,ll \
arms. He then knocked them together two
or three times, and let them fall on she
stones, saying only: "The poor fools have
had their lesson"
AN interesting anecdote of Prince Biz
marck's gallantry is going the rounds Of
the German press. 1t appears that two
young English ladies living in Dresden went
to Berlin on visit, and, wishing to mako
the most of their time, wrote to tho Chan
cellor. expressing their fervcnt wish to SEQ
him, whereupon they received an invitation
to his palace, where they wero most kindly
received A servant took them through
the palace and showed them every thing Of
interest, with which, they were, or course.
greatly delighted, their Joy eliminating
when Prince Bismarck himself suddenly
appeared and addressed them most kindly
in fluent English, walking with them for
some time in tho garden before bidding
them farewell
THE largo fund of humor possessed by
Daniel Webster is illustrated in tho little in
stance thus related in the Boston Bldqet:
When Daniel Webster was told at Washing
ton in June, 1852, that the Wing National
convention at Baltimore had nominated
Scott and Graham, he paused a moment,
and then, without moving a muscle beyond
showing playful smile upon his face, cx-
claimed Graham and Scott Scott and
Graham! Tar and feathersw Mr.. Graham
was remembered as coming from tho great
Tar State, old North Carolina, and Scott
was remembered for his military chapeau
and tall plume The sarcasm was not in
tended for Mr.. Webster's colleague In the
Cabinet, Mr. Graham, for he esteemed him
highly. Nor did Mr.. Webster entertain any
but kindly feelings toward General Scott.
One of the most eloquent speeches made in
the United States Senate was in commenda-.
tion OF General Scott's brilliant and humane
campaiyn in Mexico